[PATCH] jdk7u99-b00 retro-active security patch review

[Andrew Hughes]

We have a new release of IcedTea (http://bitly.com/it20605) and a new OpenJDK
7 release, u99-b00, to go with it. This is made from the current state of the
OpenJDK 7u repositories plus backports of the new security fixes included in 8u77.

The tarball is available here:

https://java.net/projects/openjdk7/downloads/download/openjdk7u99-b00.tar.xz

SHA256 checksum:

e457f282b7e9f070ae795ac617579b1ce5701520789fe2ada0c7ea06da139127  openjdk7u99-b00.tar.xz

Changes since u95-b00:

* Security fixes
  - S8152335, CVE-2016-0636: Improve MethodHandle consistency
* Other changes
  - S6425769: Allow specifying an address to bind JMX remote connector
  - S6961123: setWMClass fails to null-terminate WM_CLASS string
  - S8145982: JMXInterfaceBindingTest is failing intermittently
  - S8146015: JMXInterfaceBindingTest is failing intermittently for IPv6 addresses

Webrevs for the new changes:
 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk7/20160323/root/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk7/20160323/corba/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk7/20160323/jaxp/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk7/20160323/jaxws/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk7/20160323/hotspot/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk7/20160323/jdk/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk7/20160323/langtools/

Once approved, I'll push these to the OpenJDK 7 repository.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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